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Re: GCC & OpenCL ?
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Ross Ridge <rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:25:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC & OpenCL ?
- References: <20090203213755.6B74773F29@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:37:55PM -0500, Ross Ridge wrote:
>
> Basile STARYNKEVITCH writes:
> >It seems to me that some specifications
> >seems to be available. I am not a GPU expert, but
> >http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx
> >contains a R8xx Family Instruction Set Archictectire document at
> >http://developer.amd.com/gpu_assets/r600isa.pdf and at a very quick
> >first glance (perhaps wrongly) I feel that it could be enough to design &
> >write a code generator for it.
>
> Oh, ok, that makes a world of difference. Even with just AMD GPU
> support a GCC-based OpenCL implementation becomes a lot more practical.
And bear in mind that x86's with GPUs are not the only platform of interest.
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